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Worldly Quotes (page 351)

It is the history of our kindnesses that alone make this world tolerable. If it were not for that, for the effect of kind words, kind looks, kind letters . . . I should be inclined to think our life a practical jest in the worst possible spirit. Robert Louis Stevenson
George Washington quote: "Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person’s..."
Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person’s own mind, than on the externals in the world. George Washington
I come down to the water to cool my eyes. But everywhere I look I see fire; that which isn't flint is tinder, and the whole world sparks and flames. Annie Dillard
And the first rude sketch that the world has seenwas joy to his mighty heart, Till the Devil whispered behind the leaves, "It's pretty, but is it art? Rudyard Kipling
Annie Dillard quote: "I saw in a blue haze all the world poured flat and pale..."
I saw in a blue haze all the world poured flat and pale between the mountains Annie Dillard
What I saw wasn't a ghost. It was simply--myself. I can never forget how terrified I was that night, and whenever I remember it, this thought always springs to mind: that the most frightening thing in the world is our own self. What do you think? Haruki Murakami
Instead of telling the world What it is supposed to do, Why don't you immediately do it yourself? In this way, I assure you, Your happiness will be surprisingly multiplied. Sri Chinmoy
The traveler has to knock at every alien door to come to his own, and one has to wander through all the outer worlds to reach the innermost shrine at the end. Rabindranath Tagore
Dear Lord,' he said. 'let me be like Aron. Don’t make me mean. I don’t want to be. If you will let everybody like me, why, I’ll give you anything in the world, and if I haven’t got it, why, I’ll go for to get it. I don’t want to be mean. I don’t want to be lonely. For Jesus’ sake, Amen. John Steinbeck
There are men and women who make the world better just by being the kind of people they are. They have the gift of kindness or courage or loyalty or integrity. It really matters very little whether they are behind the wheel of a truck or running a business or bringing up a family. The teach the truth by living it. James A. Garfield
Andrei Sakharov quote: "We should not minimize our sacred endeavors in this world,..."
We should not minimize our sacred endeavors in this world, where, like faint glimmers in the dark, we have emerged.... Andrei Sakharov
Here was peace. She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net. Pulled it from around the waist of the world and draped it over her shoulder. So much of life in its meshes! She called in her soul to come and see. Zora Neale Hurston
...the divided world of Aspen, where locals with a sense of entitlement were pitted against developers with a sense of condominiums. Steve Martin
Thomas Carlyle quote: "Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that..."
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one less scoundrel in the world. Thomas Carlyle
The Germans have an inhuman way of cutting up their verbs. Now a verb has a hard time enough of it in this world when it's all together. It's downright inhuman to split it up. But that's just what those Germans do. They take part of a verb and put it down here, like a stake, and they take the other part of it and put it away over yonder like another stake, and between these two limits they just shovel in German. from "Disappearance of Literature Mark Twain

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